CVE-2018-6977

MEDIUM

Vmware Esxi < 14.1.5 - Infinite Loop

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7, 6.5, 6.0), Workstation (15.x and 14.x) and Fusion (11.x and 10.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to an infinite loop in a 3D-rendering shader. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker with normal user privileges in the guest to make the VM unresponsive, and in some cases, possibly result other VMs on the host or the host itself becoming unresponsive.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105549
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041821
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0025.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041822

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 20.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-835
Status published
Products (5)
vmware/esxi 6.0
vmware/esxi 6.5
vmware/esxi 6.7
vmware/fusion 10.0.0 - 10.1.5
vmware/workstation 14.0.0 - 14.1.5
Published Oct 09, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026